On Wed, 11 Dec 1991 23:56:13 EST John Voigt said: >On Thu, 12 Dec 1991 02:53:59 +0100 Eric Thomas said: >>On Wed, 11 Dec 1991 17:17:17 PST Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM> said: >> >>>Notice that IBM7171 at TCSVM is not mentioned. Why? >> >>Because its list-ID has been set to 'IBM7171-MAIN' (with the quotes - >>sigh) by the list owner. All peers ought to have the same list ID. > >As the (former) list owner let me just say that this was done to prevent >having to deal with the messages I was getting because of (unauthorized) >peers. Several people peered to IBM7171 without my permission and (by >ignoring my requests) refused to unpeer. Worse yet, they had people on >their lists whose mail would bounce and would not remove them. They >also had not added me as an owner on their copy of the list. All this >resulted in me getting angry having to deal with the crap and changing >the name of the list to what it is now - with NO peers. What I have been known to do in a case like this is to un-subscribe the unauthorized peer and then "serve off" the address. When they want to play by the rules, then they can let me know, otherwise they can forget it. Harold